Your ability to solve leetcode problems fundamentally determines your job prospects, just as being attractive/rich/famous fundamentally determines your dating prospects. Whether or not this is a fact to be lamented, it's still a fact. Trying to get a job without doing leetcode is like trying to get more dates without being more attractive. Doing leetcode is how you get a job.
Here's a formula for stable job prospects: walk into the interview, in 30 minutes solve the challenge that most candidates can't finish in an hour, spend 15 minutes talking knowledgeably about your solution, then spend 15 minutes shooting the shit and building rapport with the interviewer. Your pass rate will exceed 95%.
To consistently pull that off, you have to do leetcode.
Here's a formula for stable job prospects: walk into the interview, in 30 minutes solve the challenge that most candidates can't finish in an hour, spend 15 minutes talking knowledgeably about your solution, then spend 15 minutes shooting the shit and building rapport with the interviewer. Your pass rate will exceed 95%.
To consistently pull that off, you have to do leetcode.